22 PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM 



Specimens of Micrurus corallinus examined — Continued 



VOL. 67 



Museum 



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' From the S. Sebastiao Island. 



* From the Victoria Island. 



Now, in summarizing the above figures according to both the sex 

 and the geographical distribution of the various specimens, excluding 

 the two that have no definite data, the averages are found to be as 

 follows : 



Having thus examined a rather large series of Colombian and 

 Ecuadorian specimens that, as a rule, showed outer rings on their 

 body and so looked very much like M. dumerilii (Jan) as represented 

 in Jan's figure " and as described in Boulenger's Catalogue, " I was 



10 Icon. Ophid., 1872, pt. 42, pi. 1, fig. 3. 



" Cat. Snakes Brit. Mus., pt. 3, 1896, p. 419. 



